When Doris Burke, one of the few sideline reporters who seem to understand that the job is to ask questions and not to preen, took Dirk Nowitzki aside after his manic, already legendary wild run to give the Mavericks a Game 2 NBA Finals 95–93 win over the Miami Heat, tying the series at one, it almost seemed wrong to even ask him to talk. He had just pulled off one of the wildest four minutes in NBA Finals history, and now he was supposed to stop immediately and talk about it? This is like bombarding a woman who had just given birth with “so, what was that like?” questions, or interrogating someone who, seconds before, survived jumping out of an airplane without a parachute.
This video doesn’t encapsulate the whole run, just the end of it, but in case you want to watch Dirk hop up and down a lot: